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covetousness

noun

Reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)

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Word length
12
Starts with
C
Ends with
S
Contains
OV
Scrabble score
17

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noun

  1. Reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)

noun

  1. Extreme greed for material wealth

noun

  1. An envious eagerness to possess something

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